Linksys SE3008: 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch, Computer Network, Auto-Sensing Ports Maximize Data Flow for up to 1,000 Mbps (Black, Blue)

After reading reviews, I was pleasantly surprised by the initial quality. Tight little switch, and feels well made. Getting full switched 1Gb/Gigabit rates. No heat or loose connection issues. Works have preferred power and RJ-45 connections on the same side for neatness, but its fine as is...

This switch does exactly what you want it to do. The only thing I dont like about it is the network connections are in the front and power goes in the back. I wish everything went into the back with the LEDs on the front. Thats my fault for not looking at it harder before I ordered it. Other than that it works exactly the way I want it to, so 5 stars is and easy rating for me.

I have 3 of se3008 for different areas of my house. when I ordered the last one it ended up being a version 2 ( I didnt see it anywhere in the post) the difference is the ports and lights are on the front instead of the back which I dont like at all. the v1 has the ports and power on the back and status lights on the front which made it cleaner for my application. the unit is still a great unit though.

Just the perfect thing to update my Cisco Linksys router. I just plugged it up in place of my old E2500 unit, and it worked perfectly w/o a bunch of code-entering. This should have been possible years ago. It allows signal strengths over 100 Mbps to pass through to your connected units. No one tells us that the old routers were limited to 100 Mbps, so unless someone verbally tips you off or youre on some special program to keep you abreast of new products and how they solve old problems, youre out in the cold. This type of unit is call an unmanaged system, whereas the older Linksys I have is a magaged one (meaning, I suppose that you have enter all the code choices in the setup so that it will work properly). Until the unmanaged ones came out, weve been in the dark ages of internet connections. Your kids wont ever have this miserable history of experiences and costly visits from your IT guy(s) at home.

Works like a charm. I used it to add ports to my Linksys router. Just plugged it in and it works. Nothing much to do otherwise.

This is a very good ethernet switch for the price. Its very simple to set up; simply plug the power adapter in to an outlet and the cord in to the back of the ethernet switch, and then run your main ethernet cord from your router or gateway to to the first slot of the ethernet switch; after that, you can plug any other devices in to the remaining open slots on the ethernet switch using ethernet cords, and they will all simultaneously be connected to the internet through your local network at full ethernet speed. I have 3 devices simultaneously hooked up with one open spot remaining for another device. If you have more than 4 devices, youll need to get a switch with more than 5 ports since one port needs to be connected to the router in order for the other devices to access the internet using your local network. For a relatively cheap solution to having all your devices hooked up to the internet using ethernet, its hard to beat something like this. Its far faster and more reliable than using wifi.

This is my second 8 port switch from Linksys. I have daisy chained it to my first 8 port Linksys and have several devices now operating off my Spectrum Router. Works good and is well made.

This is not a router. It is merely a splitter. It did not work for me.

I replaced an obsolete Netgear Gigabit Switch (G5605) with this Linksys Switch. Route: 1 Old Switch then another Old Switch: --- ping statistics --- 25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.571/5.388/21.346/5.260 ms Route: 2 Old Switch then this New Switch: --- ping statistics --- 25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.540/3.508/13.707/3.109 ms So the average delay going through two switches (Reduced from 5.388 to 3.508 ms) So per old switch approximately 5.388/2 = 2.694 ms One of this new switch = 3.508 - 2.694 = 0.814 ms So it looks like the latency of the switch round trip dropped to 0.814 as oppose to 2.694 with the old switch. There will be other interface delays on both ends which mean that the actual latency is lower but we can definitely say it is faster.

I bought this to connect both my TV and a streaming box directly to the router. I thought connecting it directly from the router would be the way to go but it seemed both devices suffered from delays. I ended up packing it away and connecting the cable directly to my TV. It was my first time trying to use equipment like this, so possibly misunderstood how it should work. Either way, it seemed to equally weaken the signal to both devices causing the picture to remain fuzzy for longer than expected.